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Former Black panther member seeking parole after almost 5 decades Sundiata Acoli has been denied parole eight times and is serving a life sentence Black Panther party member released from prison after he has served decades behind bars. Acoli’s legal team said that last year, Acoli contracted COVID-19 and was hospitalized, which resulted in dramatic weight loss. They also said he suffers from hearing loss and early-stage dementia. In total, since his 1974 conviction, Acoli has been denied parole eight times, according to the “You can have someone elderly who may still be dangerous in some rare cases, but that is not this man. I mean, he has not had a single problem of any kind in prison for 25 years,” said Acoli’s attorney, ....
Loading the player. Donald Trump is back and will be making his first public appearance since the impeachment trial and Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, when he boarded his flight out of D.C. to his new residence in Florida. Trump will headline the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando on Sunday, where he is expected to offer some of the same tones and themes of election fraud and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center February 29, 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) ....
This week, former chair of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele has made it clear that he would have no problem with vocal Trump supporters leaving the GOP altogether to organize an entirely new political party. “You’ve got the national [Republican] leadership making their way down to Mar-a-Lago [Trump’s residence in Florida] to confer with Trump,” Steele pointed out Monday morning during a segment on MSNBC. The former GOP leader praised Republican Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for taking a stand against the former president’s movement. (Credit: Getty Images) “And then there’s this: the Trump party. And so you have 46 percent of the folks saying that they will follow Trump. I’m like, ‘OK, there’s the door. Y’all go do your thing and we’ll just pick up the pieces on this side and keep moving’ and that’s the battle,” he continued, referencing a ....
» Anna Wintour says Vogue has heard and understood the backlash to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris February cover photo Anna Wintour says Vogue has heard and understood the backlash to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris February cover photo Debanjali BoseJan 13, 2021, 21:48 IST Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is responding to critics who say that the Vogue cover didn t do Vice President-elect Kamala Harris justice. Lucas Jackson/Reuters/Courtesy of Vogue Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is responding to criticism of the photo of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris used in the magazine s print cover. On Tuesday, Wintour told The New York Times tech journalist Kara Swisher that we have heard and understood the reaction to the print cover. ....